| Definitions and History: information on the origins of the Internet and terminology used | Search Engines: links to the most popular search engines on the World Wide Web |
| Portal Sites: links to sites that can be customized to reflect the way an individual prefers to use the Web | Search Strategies: links to information on how to conduct an effective search on the World Wide Web |
| Service Providers: links to sites that provide Internet access, email, web-site hosting, or web-site registration | Web Page Evaluation: links to information on how to critically analyze and evaluate web sites. |
| Definitions and History |
FOLDOC: The Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing: latest terms and definitions |
| "In the Beginning was the Command Line": article on the history of operating systems by cyberpunk author Neal Stephenson |
| Jargon File: definitions of technological terms |
| Netiquette Home Page: information on how to use the Internet; "covers both common courtesy online and the informal 'rules of the road' of cyberspace." |
| NetLingo: the Internet Language Dictionary: Internet terms and definitions |
| Webopaedia an "encyclopedia and search engine dedicated to computer technology" from Internet.com |
| World Wide Web Consortium: information on web page standards |
| Portal Sites |
| Alta Vista calls itself "the most powerful and useful guide to the Net"; includes a Family Filter, a Photo Finder search engine for multimedia, and a myriad of links to utilities such as governmental and reference web sites. Also uses Real Names technology to retrieve links to the official sites of registered company names and products. |
| Internet.com: offers channels on Internet news, stocks, technology, and marketing as well as web site development, downloads, ISP providers and miscellaneous resources |
| MSN.com: Microsoft's flagship information site |
| Yahoo! pioneer web directory now also offers free email, a calendar service, a mapmaker, and a personalized splash page. |
| Search Engines |
| About.com. Indexes sites developed by trained guides and covering a wide range of topics. |
| Ask Jeeves search engine that uses plain language to search for answers to simple questions |
| Beaucoup! links to over 2500 search sites organized by purpose or topic |
| BotSpot directory of intelligent search agents |
| Copernic Agent: freeware utility that coordinates and integrates the results from a numbers of search engines and displays the results in a database table that can be edited and saved |
| Dogpile: multi-search engine that returns results from the most popular search engines, the Usenet, and various news wires |
| Google.com: most popular search engine on the web; returns search results based on how many other web sites link to each site |
| HotBot: easy-to-tailor searches for multimedia and downloadable games and other software. Offers a partnership with Electric Library for research services. Returns search results for the most-visited sites on your topic. |
| Mamma: the Mother of All Search Engines: meta-site which submits queries to a number of search engines |
| OneLook Dictionaries search for definitions in a variety of general and subject-specific online dictionaries |
| Search Engine Showdown :The User's Guide to Web Searching; a comprehensive site full of comparisons of the features of a variety of search engines. |
| Topica: search for mailing lists |
| WebCrawler: one of the six major search engines |
| Web Ferret: freeware Internet utility from FerretSoft that queries a number of search engines and consolidates the results in a database table |
| Webplaces: a collection of general and specialized search engines |
| WWW Virtual Library web subject directory; each category is maintained by a subject expert |
| Search Strategies |
| Search Engine Watch: information about how search engines work and how to use search engines; the source for search engine marketing |
| Service Providers |
| Juno: free email with or without an internet connection; requires only a modem, phone line, and special software |
| Yahoo!Geocities: offers both free web-site hosting in a series of themed neighborhoods and free email |
| Yahoo! Mail: free email from the Yahoo search engine |
| Web Page Evaluation |
| Evaluate Web Pages: tutorials and exercises for evaluating various types of web sites as well as links to additional sites. Developed at the Wolfgram Memorial Library of Widener University, Chester, PA |
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